Nova Typis / Transacta Na- / vigatio.
Subtitle: Novi Orbis Indiæ Occi- / dentalis / Admodvm Re- / verendissimorvm PP. / ac FF. Reverendissimi ac Illustrissimi Domini, / Dn. Bvellii Cataloni Abbatis montis / Serrati, & in vniversam Americam, sive Novum / Orbem Sacræ Sedis Apostolicæ Romanæ â Latere / Legati, Vicarij, ac Patriarchæ: Sociorumq́[ue] Mo- / nachorum ex Ordine S. P. N. Benedicti ad suprà / dicti Novi Mundi barbaras gentes Christi S. Evan- / gelium praedicandi gratia delegatorum Sacerdo- / tum Dimissi per S.D.D. Papam Alexandrum / VI. Anno Christi. 1492. / Nvnc Primvm / e varijs Scriptoribus in vnum colle- / cta, & figuris ornata.
By: Avthore Venerando Fr. Don Honorio Philopono / Ordinis S. Benedicti Monacho.
Published: 1621
Place of publication: [n.p.]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Buyl, Bernal, b. 1445.; Benedictines -- Missions.; Indians of the West Indies.; Indians -- Missions.; America -- Discovery and exploration.; West Indies -- Description and travel.; Peru -- Description and travel.
Notes: Engr. t.-p.
Running title: Navigatio in Novvm mvndvm sive Americam R. patrvm monachorvm ordinis S. P. Benedicti.
Pub. in Linz. cf. H. J. Wynkelmann (Winkelmann) Der amerikanischen neuen welt beschreibung ... Oldenburg, 1664, p. 30.
The first two plates (1) "ad finem præfationis ad lectorem," emblem, with 4 Latin hexameters above and 3 Latin distichs below it; and (2) "Almirante de nauios para las Indias, Wolf Kilian. sculp." (full length figure of Columbus; on the left, a large figure of a globe) are not numbered; the remaining plates are numbered 2-18.
Dedicated to Caspar Plautius, abbot of the Benedictine monastery Seitenstetten in Austria to whom the authorship of the work itself is attributed by H. J. Wynkelmann and by M. Ziegelbauer, Historia rei literariae ordinis S. Benedicti, Augustae Vind. et Herbipoli, 1754., t. IV, p. 532. cf. also V. Placcii Theatrum anonym. et pseudon. Hamburg, 1708.
p. l. [1], sig. [)( 1]: Engr. t.-p. (with portraits of "S. Brandanvs" and "Bvell. Catalonvs."--p. l. [2]-[3], sig. )( 2-3: Dedication, "Vniverso venerabilissimo religiosissimoq[ue] monachorum cœtui ordinis S. P. N. Benedicti. Inprimis autem, & cum primis pietatis, ac liberalium studiosorum gratiosissimo patrono Admodum Reverendo Domino Dn. Casparo Plavtio, monasterij Seittenstöttensis in Austria inferiori abbati dignissimo, theologo ..." signed "Don F. Honorius Philoponus, monachus S. Benedicti."--p. l. [3]vo-[4], sig. )( 3vo-[)( 4[: Preface "Ad benevolvm ordinis monastici S. Benedicti lectorem."--Plate "ad finem præfationis ad lectorem."--p. l. [5]ro, sig. )( )(: Observatio de magnete navtico.--p. l. [5]vo: diagrams.--Text (Navigatio in Novvm mvndvm, sive Americam. Reverend. patrum monachorum ordinis S. P. Benedicti) p. [1]-101.--"Vaticinivm de Messia. et Evangelij ipsius prædictatoribus" (Quotations from "Isaias, 55. c. [4-5]; [60: 3]; c. 49 [: 23]") followed by list of prominent missionaries, p. 101-[102]--Unnumbered leaf at end: ro, "Ordinis S. P. Benedicti, Academiarum fundatores." "In annotationem bibliopolæ." vo, "Errata secundum paginas et versus."